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  • Artist Info: Name: <br />
    Aerith Gainsborough<br />
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    A.K.A.: <br />
    Aeris Gainsbourgh, The Flower Girl<br />
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    Japanese name: <br />
    Earisu Geinzuburu<br />
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    Birthplace: <br />
    Icicle Inn, Icicle Lodge<br />
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    Date of Birth: <br />
    February 7, 1985<br />
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    Race:<br />
    Cetra<br />
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    Age(s): <br />
    16 (Crisis Core)<br />
    22 (Final Fantasy VII)<br />
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    Height: <br />
    5' 3"<br />
    160 cm<br />
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    Blood type: <br />
    O<br />
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    Job:<br />
    Flower merchant<br />
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    Weapon: <br />
    Staff<br />
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    Japanese voice actor: <br />
    Maaya Sakamoto<br />
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    English voice actor: <br />
    Mandy Moore (Kingdom Hearts)<br />
    Mena Suvari (Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts II)<br />
    Andrea Bowen (Crisis Core) <br />
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    Background:<br />
    Aerith was born from one of the last remaining Cetra, Ifalna, and her father was Professor Gast Faremis in Icicle Inn on February 7th, 1985. However, when she was barely twenty days old on the 27th, Professor Hojo tracked down Gast, killed him and captured Ifalna and Aerith. The two became subject to numerous experiments by Hojo and ShinRa. Seven years later in 1992, Ifalna and Aerith escaped, but Ifalna was greatly wounded and only made it as far as Midgar. Dying on the train tracks within the Slums, Ifalna gave the young Aerith to Elmyra Gainsborough just before she died.<br />
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    Elmyra raised Aerith through the years, and eventually Shinra relocated her. Though Shinra continues to try to capture her, they never succeed. Tseng of the Turks, who considers her a friend and has a crush upon her, attempts to persuade her to join Shinra instead of kidnapping her. As Aerith grows, she continues to hear voices of the Planet speaking to her, and along with Tseng's visits is aware of her heritage as the last Cetra, although when she is younger she is reluctant to accept this.<br />
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    Aerith lived with Elmyra in Sector 5 in the Midgar Slums for the rest of her life up until the beginning of Final Fantasy VII. Even though people claimed nothing could grow in the slums, because the Mako Reactors drained all the life out of Midgar's surrounding areas, she managed to grow her own flowers in the Sector 5 Church due to the presence of the Lifestream there. Aerith tended to the flowers on a regular basis, selling them about Midgar to help Elmyra make ends meet. So great was her connection to the church, that even after her death, when children play there, a spectre of Aerith can be seen there tending to the flowers, though this specter can also be seen before her death under the right circumstances, calling into question whether the appearance of the specter is intentional or merely a glitch. <br />
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    Through her beauty and kindness, Aerith holds a mystery that is both sacred and powerful. Meeting Cloud on the dirty streets of Midgar, Aerith later teams up with the ex-Soldier after an encounter with Shinra. Though her heart is pure and true, she takes interest in the relationship between Cloud and Tifa.<br />
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    ... Aerith herself would have been cheerful but a bit naive regarding men, having never been in a relationship.<br />
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    In a subplot that was cut from the final product, Aerith would tell Cloud stories about a nameless SOLDIER who used to buy flowers from her years ago. She eventually fell in love with him, though her feelings were unrequited. Cloud would have eventually deduced from these stories that the SOLDIER was Sephiroth, and would have gone out of his way to hide evidence of his true character from Aerith to avoid shattering her idealized vision of him. <br />
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    "Why" (Ayaka)<br />
    Hitomi no oku ga boyakete mienai<br />
    Kokoro no soko no kimochi wa aru no?<br />
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    Sekai no subete wo te ni shita to shite mo<br />
    Sore ga anata no shiawase na no?<br />
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    Why kodoku na sora wo miageru no?<br />
    Why waratte misete yo<br />
    Kotoba ni suru no ga heta na<br />
    Anata no seikaku wakaru kara<br />
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    Tooi mukashi ni nani ga atta no?<br />
    Shisen wo sorasu anata no hitomi ni<br />
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    Hitori de samishii yoru ni dakishimerareru<br />
    Sonna atatakasa shitteru?<br />
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    Why doushite katachi ni kodawaru no?<br />
    Why kokoro wo hiraite<br />
    Ookina nimotsu wo seotta<br />
    Anata wo uke irerareru chikara<br />
    Aru wa Shinjite mite...<br />
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    Jiyuu na hito wa bukiyou de...<br />
    Jiyuu na hito wa fuan de...<br />
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    Why kodoku na sora miageru no?<br />
    Why waratte misete yo<br />
    Kotoba ni suru no ga heta na<br />
    Anata no seikaku wakaru kara<br />
    Shinjite mite<br />
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    Why...
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